Oct 24

West Brom v Hull-Hull will be looking to win four games on the bounce after beating three London teams in a row.  West Brom will be looking to bounce back after the thrashing handed out by Manchester United. Both of these teams have conceded 11 goals so far in the Premiership, but it’s Hull who are in the higher position in the league. 

Betting tip (losing)- Hull have shocked alot of people with their form, only losing 5-0 to Wigan this season.  But this has also overshadowed West Brom’s good start, their best in the Premiership.  I’m going to bet against Hull in this game, there’s no doubt they deserve to be where they are in the league, but they’ve had that bit of luck on their side to get those good results.  Back West Brom to win at odds of 2.34.

Wigan v Aston Villa-This will be Martin O’Neill’s 100th game as manager of Aston Villa.  Villa may find this fixture difficult, only winning 1 out of the 6 games they have played against Wigan.  Steve Bruce’s men played well against Liverpool last week and were unlucky not to to come away from Anfield with at least one point.  Last season Aston Villa took the three points in this fixture, winning 2-1.

Betting Tip (winner)- If I was to bet on who was going to win this match then I would be leaning towards Wigan.  But I’m more interested in the the ‘Over 2.5′goals market for this fixture.  With Villa only keeping 1 clean sheet in 16 away matches and with both teams capable of scoring goals, I’ll be going for over 2.5 goals, priced at 2.04 on Betfair.

Chelsea v Liverpool-  Liverpool have shown the character that’s needed to win the Premiership in the last two games, they’ve managed to win both matches despite trailing.  Chelsea on the other hand have been in great form despite missing key players, the game last week against Boro showed exactly why they are favourites for the Championship crown.  Liverpool will be missing Torres again due to injury and Robbie Keane may also miss the match. 

Betting tip (losing)- Liverpool have dropped the most league points to Chelsea compared to any other team they have played.  Both of these teams have been in great form, with 20 points each.  The blues are a force when playing at home with 86 games without defeat, although Liverpool were the last team before Arsenal to beat Chelsea at home.  This is a difficult one to call, but I find it hard to think that Chelsea will lose this game.  I’m predicting a draw, maybe 1-1, back the draw at odds of 3.3.

UPDATE- Last weekend produced a few shocks in my eyes and that’s not including Tottenham winning a game!!  I was wrong to think Hull would be able to keep up their good form of late and even more wrong to think Chelsea would not be beaten at home!  Liverpool have again shown that they are challengers to the title, but can they keep this good run going?  In the end it was only one correct tip out of three, Wigan v Villa produced over 2.5 goals as predicted.

Blackburn v Middlesbrough
Everton v Man Utd
Sunderland v Newcastle
West Brom v Hull
Chelsea v Liverpool
Man City v Stoke
Portsmouth v Fulham
Tottenham v Bolton
West Ham v Arsenal
Wigan v Aston Villa

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Sep 11

The most surprising result of the week must of been Britney Spears picking up three MTV awards, whatever next?  Theo Walcott scoring a hat-trick?  Surely not.  Well we thought it would be the end of the world on Wednesday, but Capello and his men put in an impressive performance against the Croatians.  If only these bunch of part time footballers could play like that more often, then they may have a chance of qualifying for major tournament.  Continue reading »

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Sep 09

You heard it here first from premiershipbettingbanter.com, Wednesday is the end of the world.  Has it got something to do with the physicists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research who are going to fire subatomic particles into a 27-km loop, making them travel the bend 11,245 times a second, and then smash head on?  No forget about that, this is much more serious!! England come up against Croatia and if they lose then it will almost feel like the end of the world for England fans once again.  Croatia are priced as favorites to win this World Cup qualifier, which seems pretty fair as they were the ones who beat them twice in Euro qualifying and they are playing at home.  On Betfair you can back Croatia to win at odds of 2.52, with England at odds of 3.35 to win.

Betting tip-  I will be tipping a double for these second round of World Cup qualifying matches.   Lets go for a Russia and Germany double.  Russia are always going to be test at home and with the players like midfielder Arshavin, they will this cause this young Welsh team alot of problems. Wales’ problem on Saturday looked  like they couldn’t take their chances, so one goal could be all that they can manage for this game.  Germany always seem to do enough to get the result they need and I can see them getting three points even with midfielder Ballack missing tonight.  With Germany already coming out as 6-0 winners in their first qualifying game, you can see why they are favourites away from home to win this game at odds of 1.63 on Betfair (backed as a single). 

So back Russia and Germany to win (lay Finland if you are worried about the past draws between the two teams)in a double and singles on Betfair, you can get odds of around 1.91 to just about double you money. 

For any England fans out there, if you are looking to back something in the Croatia match, then I think this match could go to a draw, Croatia are unbeaten in 32 competitive matches at home so 1 point could be the best Capello and his team can get.

UPDATE: In the end it was a case of the reliable Germans letting us down, hopefully you backed a Russia win and layed Finland, but if you are like me and backed the Germans to win, then you will be disappointed that the double didn’t some off.  At least we got one winning bet by backing Russia to win, this should go some way to covering out losses.  I had a feeling Rooney would score against Croatia, but with my past losing ‘to score’ bets, I was put off!! 

Albania 3-0 Malta
Andorra 1-3 Belarus
Azerbaijan 0-0 Liechtenstein
Bosnia-Herzegovina 7-0 Estonia
Croatia 1-4 England
FYR Macedonia 1-2 Netherlands
Faroe Islands 0-1 Romania
Finland 3-3 Germany
France 2-1 Serbia
Iceland 1-2 Scotland
Italy 2-0 Georgia
Kazakhstan 1-3 Ukraine
Latvia 0-2 Greece
Lithuania 2-0 Austria
Moldova 1-2 Israel
Montenegro 0-0 Rep of Ireland
Northern Ireland 0-0 Czech Republic
Portugal 2-3 Denmark
Russia 2-1 Wales
San Marino 0-2 Poland
Slovenia 2-1 Slovakia
Spain 4-0 Armenia
Sweden 2-1 Hungary
Switzerland 1-2 Luxembourg
Turkey 1-1 Belgium

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Sep 04

There were some astonishing events in the world of football this week that would shock any football fan.  But forget about the Manchester City takeover, Berbatov’s transfer to Manchester United or even Keegan quitting Newcastle, because the most shocking news of all must be that injury magnet Louis Saha passed a medical test to seal his move to Everton!! 

On to the World Cup qualifying fixtures this weekend and after the poor game against the Czechs, England fans can breath a loud sigh of relief and rejoice, that’s right…….Sentanta will be screening the match against Andorra and you won’t be able to watch it on any of the terrestrial channels!!  Thank goodness for that, with Sentanta showing all the away fixtures, England supporters will only have to endure half the stress of watching England.

Betting tips:

Andorra v England- Everyone is thinking that this game will be an easy three points for England, but it’s England!!!  England need a good start and captain John Terry will be a big threat to Andorra on set pieces, back him to score at any time, odds of 5.5 on Betfair.

Slovakia v Northern Ireland- Northern Ireland have come on leaps and bounds over the last few years, beating Euro champions Spain as well as Sweden and Denmark.  But losing games against ‘lesser’  like Latvia away from home meant they failed to qualify for Euro 2008.  Slovakia look to have a pretty solid team and with N. Ireland performing better at home, I will tip Slovakia to win this match at odds of 1.87 on Betfair.  Slovakia score 33 goals in Euro 2008 qualifying, so overs is a good bet as well.

UPDATE- Well the John Terry bet wasn’t a winner, it was his Chelsea team mate Joe Cole who got the goals instead, hopefully anyone who followed only went in small.  But we did have two winning bets this weekend with Slovakia beating N. Ireland and the same match having over 2.5 goals (odds of over 2.0). Hopefully this will be a start towards us getting some winning bets in and making up for losing bets.

Albania 0-0 Sweden
Andorra 0-2 England
Armenia 0-2 Turkey
Austria 3-1 France
Belgium 3-2 Estonia
Croatia 3-0 Kazakhstan
Cyprus 1-2 Italy
FYR Macedonia 1-0 Scotland
Georgia 1-2 Rep of Ireland
Hungary 0-0 Denmark
Israel 2-2 Switzerland
Liechtenstein 0-6 Germany
Luxembourg 0-3 Greece
Malta 0-4 Portugal
Moldova 1-2 Latvia
Montenegro 2-2 Bulgaria
Norway 2-2 Iceland
Poland 1-1 Slovenia
Romania 0-3 Lithuania
Serbia 2-0 Faroe Islands
Slovakia 2-1 Northern Ireland
Spain 1-0 Bosnia-Herzegovina
Ukraine 1-0 Belarus
Wales 1-0 Azerbaijan

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